Key job responsibilities
Lead a team of highly skilled and driven individuals towards achieving critical business goals.
Grow talent in the team, coach team members on growth areas and create a promotion paths for strong performers.
Communicate clearly with our customers and collaborators to reduce ambiguity and mitigate risk.
Enforce professional software engineering guidelines and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Manage and communicate project deliverables, timelines, and progress.
Build GenAI based distributed, multi-tenet systems with clear state-full/state-less boundaries.
A day in the life
Technical Leadership
Lead the design and development of Model customization capabilities on SageMaker Training.
Own the technical vision for model customization infrastructure.
Drive architectural decisions for scalable, resilient systems supporting foundation models
Team & People Management
Build, mentor, and grow a world-class team of software engineers and manage their career
Hire top engineering talent and develop team members' careers
Foster a culture of innovation, operational excellence, and customer obsession
About the team
We build the managed services customers use to customize foundation models. A customer brings a task, a dataset, and a definition of what a good answer is worth, and our services run the post-training loop on their behalf. We own that entire path, from the customer-facing API down to the training-session infrastructure.
3+ years of engineering team management experience
7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, BELLEVUE - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
